The National Engineer, Volume 18National Association of Power Engineers, 1914 - Steam engineering Vols. 34- contain official N.A.P.E. directory. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
alternating current ammonia amperes apparatus association auxiliary battery belt boiler room British thermal units brothers building cause cent charge Chicago circuit City coal coil combustion committee condenser connected convention cost cylinder diagram diameter direct current draft efficiency electric equipment evaporation exhaust feed water feet fire floor fuel furnace gases gauge gineer grate heat heater horsepower installed kilowatt latent heat lecture license live steam load machine matter ment meter motor National Engineer operation pipe piston plate plunger pounds power plant practice pres present pump rheostat rivets shaft shown in Fig shows slide slide rule speed square inch steam turbine stoker superheater supply surface surface condenser switch tank temperature tion tubes turbine ture vacuum valve voltage voltmeter volts water tube boilers watt-hour weight wire
Popular passages
Page 226 - The water level should be as nearly as possible the same as at the beginning of the test. If it is not the same, a correction should be made by computation, and not by operating the pump after the test is completed.
Page 25 - Talent is something, but tact is everything. Talent is serious, sober, grave, and respectable; tact is all that, and more too. It is not a sixth sense, but it is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. It is useful in all places, and at all times; it is useful in solitude, for it shows a man his way into the world; it...
Page 302 - Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
Page 350 - ... information. Your facts are better stored in your library. Room there is not so valuable as it is in the mind, and the information, furthermore, is better preserved. Memory is as poor a reliance to the engineer as to the accountant. Both alike should consult their books when they want the exact facts. Knowledge alone is not power. The ability to use knowledge is a latent power, and the actual use of it is a power. Instead of storing your minds with useful knowledge, therefore, I will say to you,...
Page 307 - We know that a certain amount of heat is required to change one pound of water at a given temperature into steam at the same temperature ; this is called the latent heat, or heat of vaporization.
Page 79 - RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.
Page 156 - The truth is in the air, and the most impressionable brain will announce it first, but all will announce it a few minutes later. So women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
Page 481 - When a number is larger than 1 its characteristic is one less than the number of digits to the left of the decimal point in the number.
Page 39 - In order, therefore, that the technical man, who in material things knows what to do and how to do it, may be able to get the thing done and to direct the doing of it, he must be an engineer of men and of capital as well as of the materials and forces of nature. In other words he must cultivate human interests, human learning, human associations, and avail himself of every opportunity to further...
Page 71 - Second-; that it is poisonous and is capable of pervading the atmosphere in a very finely divided state in the neighborhood of places where the vapor can escape. Third; there are certain difficulties in confining both the vapor and the liquid, although these, with proper methods, are not serious. Mercury's advantages as a thermo-dynamic fluid for the purpose desired are many. First; its boiling points at desired pressures are convenient.